X labeled an unflattering NPR story about Donald Trump as ‘unsafe’

Dasus , 7 hours ago

npr.org/…/trump-arlington-cemetery-altercation-vi…

Here’s the link they marked as “unsafe”. Just you know, so you can give it a click or two or three, for Lemmy to participate in a bit of Streisand effect.

DmMacniel , 6 hours ago

Wow… what a piece of shit Trump and an even bigger stain Elmo is.

WHYAREWEALLCAPS , 6 hours ago

Was that an autocorrection or are we calling him Elmo now? Because I'm down to start calling him that either way.

n2burns , 6 hours ago

I really don’t like the idea of associating someone as toxic as Elon with someone as pure as Elmo.

metaStatic , 6 hours ago

well ... they are both muppets

Kolanaki , 4 hours ago

Main difference is the only thing up Elon’s backside is his own head.

homesweethomeMrL , 3 hours ago

Elmo was always a lie.

bradorsomething , 6 hours ago

Probably meant to personally warn elon

halcyoncmdr , 6 hours ago

Devil’s advocate:

I no longer use Twitter, so I’m not sure whether this is a possibility now, but it was at one point.

Was the link itself a forwarding link through a potentially spammy/tracking service, even though the end link is a legitimate NPR page? I do not know if Twitter shows the resulting link at the end of a redirect chain in that widget or just what is posted.

I’m also unsure if NPR has any sort of advertising that could be using shady forwarding from the page that Twitter may be seeing in the link. Advertising networks incorporating shady shit on regular pages happens a lot since they don’t actually verify every ad.

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Now, I doubt either of those are the case, but they’re possibilities to verify first before jumping on a bandwagon. Twitter is such dogshit now that I doubt they’re doing more than the basic anymore, almost definitely not actually following links and redirects to check for even basic safety stuff like that since Elon took over.

GroupNebula563 , 6 hours ago

Every link posted to twitter is followed to the end of any redirect chains that may be present and then the end result is shortened IIRC (take this with several grains of salt as this is just what I’ve heard previously and it may be incorrect or may have become incorrect)

wjrii , 6 hours ago

I guess it’s possible, and it looks like NPR changed the word “tiktok” to “video” in the URL, but I don’t think Xitter deserves the benefit of the doubt here. NPR is a pretty solid media organization overall, with standards that they mostly adhere to, and no paywall. They’re unlikely to be using any technical shenanigans, and critically there has already been a history.

The last time they said things Musk didn’t like, he decided that they should be lumped in with the likes of RT as a state-run propaganda arm, even though the government share of funding is indirect and limited, and they’ve got decades of history of solid reporting from an American center to center-left perspective, and even that is more meeting their audience where they are with story selection and tone, rather than shading facts of the stories they do tell.

Chozo , 5 hours ago

Was the link itself a forwarding link through a potentially spammy/tracking service, even though the end link is a legitimate NPR page?

I have to assume the link posted was a direct link to NPR. The screenshot in the article lists the npr.org URL specifically as the "unsafe" link.

tiefling , 5 hours ago

The devil doesn’t need an advocate

halcyoncmdr , 4 hours ago

Quite the opposite actually, otherwise lemmy will just devolve into another echo chamber, just like Twitter has, and most social media sites. The down votes I got simply for bringing up points that might happen to not fit the hive mind mentality are just as common here obviously, even when expressing up front that I don’t actually believe those points.

Amazing how fragile some people are, so filled with hatred over a billionaire that lives rent free in their head and doesn’t even think about them at all that they downvote a discussion simply because it might bring up valid points they hadn’t considered in their knee jerk reaction.

Armok_the_bunny , 3 hours ago

Au contraire, the devil absolutely needs an advocate, to make sure he’s being called out on the right bullshit and not just whatever accusation is thrown his way.